All Episodes

670. Beeconomics 101

Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System (Update)

669. Why Is 95 Percent of the World’s Bourbon Made in Kentucky?

668. Do Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny Have Blood on Their Hands?

In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins?

Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

667. Here’s Why You Are Constantly Fighting Off Scammers

666. This Is How Progress Happens

The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of (Update)

665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

664. Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?

All You Need Is Nudge (Update)

663. Is Weed a Performance-Enhancing Drug?

662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying

Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore? (Update)

661. Can A.I. Save Your Life?

660. The Wellness Industry Is Gigantic — and Mostly Wrong

Steve Levitt Quits His Podcast, Joins Ours

659. Can Marty Makary Fix the F.D.A.?

658. This Is Your Brain on Supplements

Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice? (Update)

Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? (Update)

Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor? (Update)

657. Whose “Messiah” Is It Anyway?

Who Pays for “Messiah”?

656. How Handel Got His Mojo Back

655. “The Greatest Piece of Participatory Art Ever Created”

Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard. (Update)

Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset? (Update)

654. Is the Public Ready for Private Equity?

653. Does Horse Racing Have a Future?

What Happens When You Turn 20

652. Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex

651. The Ultimate Dance Partner

Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One? (Update)

650. The Doctor Won’t See You Now

A Question-Asker Becomes a Question-Answerer

How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt? (Update)

649. Should Ohio State (and Michigan, and Clemson) Join the N.F.L.?

648. The Merger You Never Knew You Wanted

Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Update)

647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)

646. An Air Traffic Controller Walks Into a Radio Studio ...

645. Is the Air Traffic Control System Broken?

644. Has America Lost Its Appetite for the Common Good?

Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up (Update)

What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life? (Update)

Why Do People Still Hunt Whales? (Update)

The First Great American Industry (Update)

Why Does Tipping Still Exist? (Update)

643. Why Do Candles Still Exist?

642. How to Wage Peace, According to Tony Blinken

Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone? (Update)

641. What Does It Cost to Lead a Creative Life?

640. Why Governments Are Betting Big on Sports

How to Make Your Own Luck (Update)

639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”

638. Are You Ready for the Elder Swell?

What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Update)

637. What It’s Like to Be Middle-Aged (in the Middle Ages)

636. Why Aren’t We Having More Babies?

An Economics Lesson from a Talking Pencil (Update)

635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation?

634. “Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job”

633. The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update)

632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?

631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?

Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)

630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing

629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?

Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

628. Sludge, Part 2: Is Government the Problem, or the Solution?

627. Sludge, Part 1: The World Is Drowning in It

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Update)

626. Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System

625. The Biden Policy That Trump Hasn’t Touched

EXTRA: The Downside of Disgust (Update)

624. The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do

623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?

The Show That Never Happened

622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?

621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

620. Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore?

619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine

Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?

617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Highway Signs and Prison Labor

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

616. How to Make Something from Nothing

615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?

613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.

612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?

How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)

611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next

610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?

609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?

Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)

608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?

607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?

606. How to Predict the Presidency

Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)

605. What Do People Do All Day?

EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)

604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)

603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)

602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)

EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

What Exactly Is College For? (Update)

EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)

600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”

599. The World's Most Valuable Unused Resource

EXTRA: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update)

598. Is Overconsolidation a Threat to Democracy?

597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?

EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)

596. Farewell to a Generational Talent

595. Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?

594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?

593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living

EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub

592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway

591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time

EXTRA: The Opioid Tragedy — How We Got Here

590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic?

589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?

Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units

588. Confessions of a Black Conservative

Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?

586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?

Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)

585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing

How to Pave the Road to Hell

Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?

Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?

582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?

581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration

Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration

580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System

579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?

Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)

578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think

Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)

Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall

The Vanishing Mr. Feynman

The Brilliant Mr. Feynman

How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Update)

The Curious Mr. Feynman

574. “A Low Moment in Higher Education”

5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Replay)

573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

572. Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?

571. Greeting Cards, Pizza Boxes, and Personal Injury Lawyers

570. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?

569. Do You Need Closure?

568. Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?

567. Do the Police Have a Management Problem?

513. Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)

566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?

Extra: Jason Kelce Hates to Lose

565. Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy?

480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? (Replay)

564. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency

563. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit

562. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death

561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events

232. A New Nobel Laureate Explains the Gender Pay Gap (Replay)

560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?

559. Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One?

558. The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One

When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

556. A.I. Is Changing Everything. Does That Include You?

555. New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?

554. Can A.I. Take a Joke?

553. The Suddenly Diplomatic Rahm Emanuel

Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454 Replay)

Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up

552. Freakonomics Radio Presents: The Economics of Everyday Things

551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?

550. Why Do People Still Hunt Whales?

549. The First Great American Industry

548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?

Why Did You Marry That Person? (Ep. 511 Replay)

547. Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial

546. Are E.S.G. Investors Actually Helping the Environment?

545. Enough with the Slippery Slopes!

544. Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent

Make Me a Match (Ep. 209 Update)

543. How to Return Stolen Art

542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?

541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin

Why Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Ep. 323 Replay)

540. Swearing Is More Important Than You Think

539. Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone?

538. A Radically Simple Way to Boost a Neighborhood

How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less (Ep. 400 Replay)

537. “Insurance Is Sexy.” Discuss.

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)

536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?

535. Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?

534. Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?

Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? (Ep. 493 Update)

The Economics of Everyday Things: Used Hotel Soaps

533. Will the Democrats “Make America Great Again”?

The Economics of Everyday Things: “My Sharona”

Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429 Update)

The Economics of Everyday Things: Girl Scout Cookies

532. Do You Know Who Owns Your Vet?

Introducing “The Economics of Everyday Things”

531. Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?

Extra: Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous

530. What's Wrong with Being a One-Hit Wonder?

529. Can Our Surroundings Make Us Smarter?

528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing

527. Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?

526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

Freakonomics Radio Needs Your Help

525. In Search of the Real Adam Smith

524. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?

523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

522. Is Google Getting Worse?

The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375 Update)

521. I’m Your Biggest Fan!

The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home

519. Has Globalization Failed?

518. Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice?

517. Are M.B.A.s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?

Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439 Update)

516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

Extra: Ken Burns | People I (Mostly) Admire

515. When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening?

This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Ep. 472 Update)

514. Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America

513. Should Public Transit Be Free?

Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? (Ep. 477 Replay)

The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. 470 Replay)

The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)

512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?

511. Why Did You Marry That Person?

The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later (Ep. 479 Replay)

510. What Problems Does Crypto Solve, Anyway?

509. Are N.F.T.s All Scams?

508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?

507. 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work

506. What Is Sportswashing (and Does It Work)?

505. Did Domestic Violence Really Spike During the Pandemic?

504. Introducing “Off Leash”

503. What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men?

Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Ep. 384 Update)

502. “I Don’t Think the Country Is Turning Away From College.”

501. The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into

500. What Exactly Is College For?

Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China — and How About Russia? (Ep. 481 Update)

499. Don't Worry, Be Tacky

498. In the 1890s, the Best-Selling Car Was … Electric

497. Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life?

How to Change Your Mind (Ep. 379 Update)

Do Unions Still Work?

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475 Update)

493. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?

Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? (Ep. 455 Replay)

492. How Did a Hayfield Become One of America’s Hottest Cities?

491. Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?

490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?

489. Is “Toxic Positivity” a Thing?

488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?

487. Is It Okay to Have a Party Yet?

486. “The Art Market Is in Massive Disruption.”

485. “I’ve Been Working My Ass Off for You to Make that Profit?”

484. “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.”

How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis? (Ep. 444 Replay)

483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce of the American Economy?

481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?

480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?

479. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later

478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

477. Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?

That’s a Great Question! (Ep. 192 Rebroadcast)

“This Didn't End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus)

476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

475. Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids?

474. All You Need Is Nudge

Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”? (Ep. 407 Rebroadcast)

473. These Jobs Were Not Posted on ZipRecruiter

Reasons to Be Cheerful (Ep. 417 Rebroadcast)

472. This Is Your Brain on Pollution

471. Mayor Pete and Elaine Chao Hit the Road

Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Rebroadcast)

470. The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism

469. The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not

468. Nap Time for Everyone!

How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)

467. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

466. She’s From the Government, and She’s Here to Help

465. Introducing a New “Freakonomics of Medicine” Podcast

464. Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything

These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)

462. The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?

461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

460. The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight

459. Let’s Be Blunt: Marijuana Is a Boon for Older Workers

458. How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy

457. Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?

456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare

Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)

How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)

455. Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

454. Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?

453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)

452. Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down

451. Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?

450. How to Be Better at Death

449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research

448. The Downside of Disgust

447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

446. “We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”

Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)

445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

444. How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis?

443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist

PLAYBACK (2015): Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!

442. Is it Too Late for General Motors to Go Electric?

441. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital)

440. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV)

439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

438. How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)

Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook

437. Many Businesses Thought They Were Insured for a Pandemic. They Weren’t.

436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

435. Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?

434. Is New York City Over?

“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings

433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?

432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

“One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Kerwin Charles

Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408 Rebroadcast)

What if Your Company Had No Rules?

431. Why Can’t Schools Get What the N.F.L. Has?

"I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 2: Mayim Bialik

America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)

430. Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?

Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire"

The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)

429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

427. The Pros and Cons of Reparations

426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?

425. Remembrance of Economic Crises Past

424. How to Make Your Own Luck

423. The Doctor Will Zoom You Now

422. Introducing "No Stupid Questions"

421. How to Prevent Another Great Depression

420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389 Rebroadcast)

419. 68 Ways to Be Better at Life

418. What Will College Look Like in the Fall (and Beyond)?

417. Reasons to Be Cheerful

416. How Do You Reopen a Country?

415. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World

414. Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China?

413. Who Gets the Ventilator?

412. What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?

411. Is $2 Trillion the Right Medicine for a Sick Economy?

410. What Does Covid-19 Mean for Cities (and Marriages)?

409. The Side Effects of Social Distancing

Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373 Rebroadcast)

408. Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is?

407. Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”?

406. Can You Hear Me Now?

405. Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)

404. Does the President Matter as Much as You Think?

How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Ep. 350 Update)

403. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence”

402. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”

5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Rebroadcast)

The Zero-Minute Workout (Rebroadcast)

401. How Many Prince Charleses Can There Be in One Room?

Why Is This Man Running for President? (Update)

400. How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less

399. Honey, I Grew the Economy

How to Change Your Mind (Rebroadcast)

398. The Truth About the Vaping Crisis

397. How to Save $32 Million in One Hour

396. Why Does Tipping Still Exist?

395. Speak Softly and Carry Big Data

394. Does Hollywood Still Have a Princess Problem?

393. Can Britain Get Its “Great” Back?

392. The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit

391. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up

390. Fed Up

389. How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be

388. The Economics of Sports Gambling

The Future of Meat (Rebroadcast)

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Rebroadcast)

387. Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi!

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast )

386. How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War

America’s Hidden Duopoly (Rebroadcast)

385. What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?

384. Abortion and Crime, Revisited

A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast )

383. The Zero-Minute Workout

382. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?

381. Long-Term Thinking in a Start-Up Town

380. Notes From an Imperfect Paradise

379. How to Change Your Mind

Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Rebroadcast)

378. 23andMe (and You, and Everyone Else)

377. The $1.5 Trillion Question-How to fix student loan debt?

376. The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

The Invisible Paw (Rebroadcast)

375. The Most Interesting Fruit in the World

374. How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work

372. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”

Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Update)

371. A Free-Trade Democrat in the Trump White House

370. How to Fail Like a Pro

369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough

368. Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

367. The Future of Meat

366. This Economist Predicted the Last Crisis. What’s the Next One?

Extra: Domonique Foxworth Full Interview

365. Not Just Another Labor Force

Extra: Mark Cuban Full Interview

364. Inside the Sports-Industrial Complex

Extra: Mark Teixeira Full Interview

363. Think Like a Winner

Hacking the World Bank (Update)

362. Why Is This Man Running for President?

How to Be Happy (Rebroadcast)

How to Win Games and Beat People (Rebroadcast)

People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Rebroadcast)

Freakonomics Radio Live: “We Thought of a Way to Manipulate Your Perception of Time.”

Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”

Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”

361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”

360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?

359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?

There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Rebroadcast)

358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be

357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?

356. America’s Hidden Duopoly

Extra: Elvis Costello Full Interview

355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?

Extra: Jeremy Lin Full Interview

354. How to Be Creative

353. How to Optimize Your Apology

352. Can This Man Stop a Trade War?

Extra: Shawn Johnson Full Interview

351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete

Extra: Full Interviews With Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Kyle Juszczyk

350. How to Stop Being a Loser

349. How Sports Became Us

348. Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think?

347. Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant

346. Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet

345. How to Be Happy

344. Who Decides How Much a Life Is Worth?

A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)

343. An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…

342. Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?

341. Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)

340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.

339. The Future of Freakonomics Radio

In Praise of Incrementalism (Rebroadcast)

In Praise of Maintenance (Rebroadcast)

338. How to Catch World Cup Fever

337. How to Build a Smart City

How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Rebroadcast)

336. The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable

335. Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad?

334. 5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing

Evolution, Accelerated (Rebroadcast)

333. The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted

332. Why the Trump Tax Cuts Are Terrible/Awesome (Part 2)

331. Why the Trump Tax Cuts are Awesome/Terrible (Part 1)

330. Extra: Ray Dalio Full Interview

329. The Invisible Paw

328. Extra: Mark Zuckerberg Full Interview

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Rebroadcast)

327. Extra: Carol Bartz Full Interview

The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)

326. Extra: Jack Welch Full Interview

325. How to Train Your Dragon Child

324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview

323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It

322. Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview

Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroadcast)

321. Extra: Richard Branson Full Interview

320. Letting Go

319. After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff

318. It’s Your Problem Now

317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?

An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl (Rebroadcast)

316. “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight”

315. How to Become a C.E.O.

What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?

313. How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win

Why Is My Life So Hard? (Rebroadcast)

Trust Me (Rebroadcast)

Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)

312. Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.

311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?

Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)

309. Nurses to the Rescue!

308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature)

307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?

306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution

305. The Demonization of Gluten

304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?

“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)

303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love

302. Why Learn Esperanto?

301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)

300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)

299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"

Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)

Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)

Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)

What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)

298. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)

297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money

296. These Shoes Are Killing Me!

295. When Helping Hurts

294. The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage

The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)

293. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 2)

292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)

"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" on the topic of Rivalry

291. Evolution, Accelerated

290. He’s One of the Most Famous Political Operatives in America. America Just Doesn’t Know It Yet.

289. How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?

288. Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?

287. Hoopers! Hoopers! Hoopers!

286. How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask Google)

Food + Science = Victory! (Rebroadcast)

285. There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified?

284. Is Income Inequality Inevitable? (Earth 2.0 Series)

283. What Would Our Economy Look Like? (Earth 2.0 Series)

282. Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?

281. Big Returns from Thinking Small

280. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” on the topic of Collections.

How Safe Is Your Job? (Rebroadcast)

279. Why Is My Life So Hard?

278. Chuck E. Cheese’s: Where a Kid Can Learn Price Theory

277. The Taboo Trifecta

276. No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry

275. Professor Hendryx vs. Big Coal

How to Get More Grit in Your Life

274. An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl

273. Did China Eat America’s Jobs?

Is the American Dream Really Dead?

272. Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say

271. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution

How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)

How to Be More Productive (Rebroadcast)

270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis

269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

The No-Tipping Point (Rebroadcast)

267. How to Make a Bad Decision

Introducing Stephen J. Dubner's new podcast, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"

266. Trust Me

How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast )

265. The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business

264. In Praise of Incrementalism

263. In Praise of Maintenance

262. This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

How To Win A Nobel Prize (Rebroadcast)

261. Why Are We Still Using Cash?

260. Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?

259. Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian

258. Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream

257. The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think

Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset? (Rebroadcast)

Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush (Rebroadcast)

256. What Are You Waiting For?

Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees? (Rebroadcast)

255. Ten Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten

254. What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?

253. Is the Internet Being Ruined?

252. Confessions of a Pothole Politician

The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast )

How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast)

Why Do We Really Follow the News? (Rebroadcast)

251. Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble?

Time to Take Back the Toilet

250. Why Does Everyone Hate Flying? And Other Questions Only a Pilot Can Answer

249. The Longest Long Shot

248. How to Be Tim Ferriss

247. How to Win Games and Beat People

246. How to Get More Grit in Your Life

245. Being Malcolm Gladwell

244. How to Become Great at Just About Anything

243. How to Be More Productive

242. Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?

241. Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?

The Economics of Sleep, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)

The Economics of Sleep, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)

240. Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think

239. The No-Tipping Point

238. The United States of Cory Booker

237. Ask Not What Your Podcast Can Do for You

236. How Can This Possibly Be True?

235. Who Needs Handwriting?

How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps (Rebroadcast)

Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? (Rebroadcast)

234. Do Boycotts Work?

233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

232. The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)

Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Rebroadcast)

231. Is Migration a Basic Human Right?

230. The Cheeseburger Diet

229. Ben Bernanke Gives Himself a Grade

Why Do People Keep Having Children? (Rebroadcast)

228. Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?

227. Should Everyone Be in a Rock Band?

226. Food + Science = Victory!

225. Am I Boring You?

How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying (Rebroadcast)

224. How To Win A Nobel Prize

223. Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?

222. Meet the Woman Who Said Women Can’t Have It All

221. How Did the Belt Win?

220. “I Don't Know What You've Done With My Husband, But He's a Changed Man.”

219. Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar

218. The Harvard President Will See You Now

217. Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset?

216. How to Make a Smart TV Ad

The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)

215. Why Do We Really Follow the News?

214. How to Create Suspense

213. Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush

212. The Economics of Sleep, Part 2

211. The Economics of Sleep, Part 1

A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)

210. Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?

209. Make Me a Match

208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay

207. Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)

Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)

206. Ten Years of Freakonomics

205. Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!

Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

204. Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”

203. Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend

202. How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?

201. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?

The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)

What You Don’t Know About Online Dating (Rebroadcast)

200. When Willpower Isn’t Enough

199. This Idea Must Die

198. The Maddest Men of All

197. Hacking the World Bank

196. Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?

195. How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?

194. How Safe Is Your Job?

193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

192. That’s a Great Question!

191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?

What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)

What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)

190. Time to Take Back the Toilet

The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)

189. How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps

188. Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?

187. The Man Who Would Be Everything

186. Why Do People Keep Having Children?

185. Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?

184. What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?

183. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”

182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?

How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)

181. Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition

180. Fitness Apartheid

179. Outsiders by Design

178. How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying

177. Regulate This!

Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)

Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)

What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)

Should Tipping be Banned? (Rebroadcast)

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)

176. Does Religion Make You Happy?

175. Why You Should Bribe Your Kids

174. What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?

173. A Better Way to Eat

172. How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot

171. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer

170. Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)

169. Failure Is Your Friend

The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )

168. Think Like a Child

167. The Three Hardest Words in the English Language

166. How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

165. The Perfect Crime

164. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?

163. What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?

162. “If Mayors Ruled the World”

161. How to Make People Quit Smoking

160. Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It

Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)

159. “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”

158. Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?

157. Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?

156. Why Marry? (Part 2)

155. Why Marry? (Part 1)

154. What You Don’t Know About Online Dating

153. Reasons to Not Be Ugly

152. Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)

Fear Thy Nature (Rebroadcast)

151. Are We Ready to Legalize Drugs? And Other FREAK-Quently Asked Questions

150. What’s the “Best” Exercise?

Save Me From Myself (Rebroadcast)

149. Pontiff-icating on the Free-Market System

148. Are Gay Men Really Rich?

147. The Most Dangerous Machine

146. Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence

145. What Do Skating Rinks, Ultimate Frisbee, and the World Have in Common?

144. Who Runs the Internet?

Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)

Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)

143. Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell

142. The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat

141. How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten

140. How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush

139. Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?

The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)

138. Whatever Happened to the Carpal Tunnel Epidemic?

The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)

137. Who Are the Most Successful Immigrants in the World?

The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)

136. The Middle of Everywhere

The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)

135. Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?

The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast)

134. Government Employees Gone Wild

133. A Burger a Day

132. Jane Austen, Game Theorist

Legacy of a Jerk (Rebroadcast)

131. Do You Really Want to Know Your Future?

130. Why Family and Business Don’t Mix

129. Should Tipping be Banned?

128. Baby, You Can Program My Car

127. Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

The Hidden Cost of False Alarms (Rebroadcast)

126. What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common?

125. It’s Crowded at the Top

124. Running to Do Evil

123. Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply

122. How Much Does Your Name Matter?

121. The Tax Man Nudgeth

120. 100 Ways to Fight Obesity

119. How Money Is March Madness?

118. Parking Is Hell

117. When Is a Negative a Positive?

116. Women Are Not Men

115. The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon

114. How to Think About Guns

113. Sure, I Remember That

112. Would You Let a Coin Toss Decide Your Future?

111. Introducing “Freakonomics Experiments”

110. Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?

109. How to Live Longer

108. How Did “Freakonomics” Get Its Name? … and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

107. How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?

106. The House of Dreams

105. Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas

104. The Things They Taught Me

103. Free-conomics

102. I Consult, Therefore I Am

101. Mass Transit Hysteria

100. Our 100th Episode!

99. How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul

98. We the Sheeple

97. Lying to Ourselves

96. The Cobra Effect

95. Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over

94. The Tale of the $15 Tomato

93. Why Online Poker Should Be Legal

92. Fear Thy Nature

91. Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?

90. How Deep Is the Shadow Economy?

89. There’s Cake in the Breakroom!

88. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2

87. The Season of Death

86. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1

85. Olympian Economics

84. Legacy of a Jerk

83. What's Wrong With Cash for Grades?

82. Please Steal My Car

81. Star-Spangled Banter?

80. Riding the Herd Mentality

79. A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee

78. You Eat What You Are, Part 2

77. Playing the Nerd Card

76. You Eat What You Are, Part 1

75. Retirement Kills

74. Soul Possession

73. A Rose By Any Other Distance

72. Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors

71. Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line?

70. Eating and Tweeting

69. The Hidden Cost of False Alarms

68. The Power of the President -- and the Thumb

67. The Patent Gap

66. Show and Yell

65. It’s Not the President, Stupid

64. The Days of Wine and Mouses

63. The Dilbert Index?

62. How Biased Is Your Media?

61. Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?

60. Save Me From Myself

59. The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl

58. What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?

57. Does Money Really Buy Elections?

56. Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say?

55. The Perils of Drunk Walking

54. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore)

53. How American Food Got So Bad

52. Weird Recycling

51. What Makes a Donor Donate?

50. The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?

49. Unnatural Turkeys

48. Boo…Who?

47. Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers

46. Misadventures in Baby-Making

45. Those Cheating Teachers!

44. Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?

43. The Decline and Fall of Violence

42. The Upside of Quitting

41. The Folly of Prediction

40. The Suicide Paradox

39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting

38. The Church of "Scionology"

37. Mouse in the Salad

36. Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You're Driving?

35. Live From St. Paul!

34. Things Our Fathers Gave Us

33. To Catch a Fugitive

32. Growing Up Buffett

31. Gambling With Your Life

30. Does College Still Matter? And Other Freaky Questions Answered ...

29. Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop

28. Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?

27. Death by Fire? Probably Not

26. The Health of Nations

25. Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?

24. The Power of Poop

23. Millionaires vs. Billionaires

22. Why Cities Rock

21. Bring on the Pain!

20. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)

19. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)

18. Freakonomics FAQ, No. 1

17. Trashed

16. Exit Interview: Schools Chancellor, NYC

15. You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let's Do It!

14. Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?

13. The "No-Lose Lottery," Part 2

12. Is America Ready for a "No-Lose Lottery"?

11. How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?

10. The NFL's Best Real Estate Isn't For Sale. Yet.

9. Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic

8. Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?

7. Two Book Authors and a Microphone

6. Why the World Cup Is an Economist's Dream

5. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?

4. Faking It

3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?

2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?

1. The Dangers of Safety